12/27/11

Peirce understood that we need a philosophy beyond Aristotle


Charles Sanders Peirce correctly saw
That philosophy had become captive of
Nominalism and dualism
And as a scientist and logician he created
A pragmaticist framework for such a philosophy
He could not do this within the academy
He did it as an ever-evolving outsider
An ostracized genius

Now with thought in limbo
But the world progressing as it does and must
Peirce and his small group of interpreters
Assume more and more their place as the creators of
A platform for the underlying premises of reality

That reality is ultimately communal not individual
All thought including science
Is fallible
Common sense is closer to grasping
Semiotic reality
Than philosophies that fail to see reality as triadic

Neitzsche and Assagioli and Peirce were contemporaries
Who as far as I know never knew each other
But they created together the basis for the
Revaluation of values
And their expression in the words
Non-idolatry (the root)
Tolerance (the enduring strength)
Helpfulness (the enabling of all)
and Democracy (the arduous means by which we order our lives 
Respecting who we are and that we move on together)

It is apposite that Abba's Way
Which integrates Assagioli and Neitzsche
And anticipates Peirce
Creates the basis for the

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